 | American Antiquarian Society - Electronic journals - 1898 - 574 pages
...gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered...it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." In 1658, Radisson4 wintered on the shore of Lake Superior, and together with several notices of copper... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - Electronic journals - 1898 - 572 pages
...very handsome and pure, which was given to him by an Algonquin savage. "He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it,... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - Ethnology - 1900 - 530 pages
...copper a foot long and told him there were " large quantities" where he had obtained this. He also said " that they gathered it in lumps, and, having...it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." ' The mining operations in the Michigan-Minnesota copper region were evidently carried on for a very... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh - Ethnology - 1900 - 574 pages
...and told him there were " large quantities'' where he had obtained this. He also said " that the}r gathered it in lumps, and, having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." * The mining operations in the Michigan-Minnesota copper region were evidently carried on for a very... | |
 | William Wallace Tooker - Algonquian languages - 1901 - 96 pages
...piece, and that it was found on the bank of a river near a great lake. He also declared that the Indians gathered it in lumps and having melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones." We can assume from this story that this piece of copper was not mined, melted, or smoothed by this... | |
 | 1902 - 932 pages
...gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken thie, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He / said that they...spread «^^ it in sheets, smoothing it w'ith stones.'' — Chaanplain, 2:236 Presumably this refers to Lake Superior, and the melting merely to softening... | |
 | William Martin Beauchamp - Indian metal-work - 1902 - 192 pages
...him by an Algonquin. It was a foot long. The great discoverer said, " He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps, and having melted it,... | |
 | Charles Edward Brown - Archaeology - 1906 - 642 pages
...gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this, which was on the banks of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered...melted it, spread it in sheets, smoothing it with ^stones."—Champlain, 2, 236. Father Claude Allouez, in 166G made the following statement of the Algonquian... | |
 | Samuel de Champlain - America - 1907 - 412 pages
...a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that there were large quantities where he had taken this,...that they gathered it in lumps, and, having melted it,1 spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones. I was very glad of this present, although of small... | |
 | Samuel de Champlain - America - 1907 - 414 pages
...bank of a river, near a great lake. He said that they gathered it in lumps, and, having melted it,1 spread it in sheets, smoothing it with stones. I was very glad of this present, although of small value. Arriving at Trois Rivieres, I found all the Montagnais awaiting me, and the... | |
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Shortly after conferring with them about many matters concerning their wars, the Algonquin savage, one of their chiefs, drew from a sack a piece of copper a foot long, which he gave me. This was very handsome and quite pure. He gave me to understand that... 
